[Resolved] Extremely Long Words

[The Hobo]

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This is really annoying. How could I have my scripts detect a really long word and truncate it before it displays the text? I could loop every word and use strlen(), but...is there a better way?

[The Hobo]

eh, it seems vBulletin takes care of it. But otherwise, that would be displayed as one really long word and cause massive horizontal scroll bars.

[Chroder]

vB seems to do it like this:

preg_replace("#([^\n\r ?&./<>\"\\-\[\]]{80})#i", "\\\\1  ", $text) 

Test it out, not sure if thats the right code though, not good at those regx.

[The Hobo]

That doesn't seem to do anything.

[Chroder]

I screwed up on the copy+paste I think

But look here, I got it to work: http://chris.devbox.net/test.php

You can customize the 2nd parameter (\\1\n) to be whatever you want. I put in a newline, but you can put in an HTML break or anything. (vBulletin makes it a space so the browser will put it on a new line)

[The Hobo]

Perfect! Thanks, bro.